Lamentations 2:12
They say to their mothers, Where is corn and wine? when they swooned as the wounded in the streets of the city, when their soul was poured out into their mothers’ bosom. They say to their mothers, Where is corn and wine? when they swooned as the wounded in the streets of the city, when their soul was poured out into their mothers’ bosom.
Lamentations 2:12 is part of a sad song commemorating the awful sufferings that came upon Jerusalem, the apostate people of God. It belongs to the account of suffering during the Babylonian destruction of Jerusalem. It portrays the children of Jerusalem, weakened and dying in the streets during the city's ruin, crying to their mothers for food and drink as they faint like the wounded and pour out their lives in their mothers' arms. The suffering it describes shows that the tribulation of the Jews under the Babylonians was as great as the tribulation at Jerusalem's later destruction, so the later destruction was not the uniquely greatest tribulation spoken of in Matthew 24, with Lamentations 2 and 4, especially 4:3-10, cited as evidence.